Winter Activities

When our Facebook fans were surveyed on the top ways to spend 48 hours in Kamloops, cross-country skiing at Stake Lake was one of the top five choices. Last month, I borrowed cross-country skis from a friend, recruited another friend who skis regularly to show me the ropes, and headed out skiing at Stake Lake to test it […]

Prior to the 2013-14 ski season, I had no conception about backcountry skiing, let alone all the little things that go into making it the incredible activity that it is. As I started ski touring a little bit that season, and then over the course of the subsequent years, I began to hear about this […]

Just 20 minutes from Fernie, in the Lizard Range of the East Kootenay Mountains, sits Island Lake Lodge and its 7,000 acres of backcountry skiing heaven. Here, Corrie “the Captain” Wright works as the lodge’s longest-serving ski guide. It’s here in the mountains where he met his wife, where he skis with his daughters and where […]

Discover BC through the eyes of its locals! Each week we #exploreBC through a different Instagrammer who shares their favourite local spots and experiences. This week, we’re featuring @dancarrphoto, a photographer based in Pemberton, just north of Whistler. He’s taking us on a journey along the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, the iconic stretch of highway that connects Vancouver and […]

Lights exploded into the sky. I could hardly feel the camera controls under my frozen fingers, but the cold didn’t register in my mind. I was entranced by the way snow-ladened trees momentarily appeared in the otherwise black night, how the snow on the ski slope softly reflected the colours of the explosions. I was […]

When the words ‘skiing’ and ‘Kamloops‘ are used in the same sentence, most people’s minds immediately go to Sun Peaks. Not surprising as it’s one of the top ski resorts in Canada. But, there is another ski hill near Kamloops. It’s smaller, lesser known, has more of a home-grown feel to it, and it was […]